NEW ENGLAND NASF CHAPTER HOSTS ANNUAL SPRING WEBINAR
The New England Chapter of NASF hosted a virtual seminar for the benefit of their membership as well as the entire non-NENASF metal finishing community. The event was held on Wednesday March 8, 2023. The Executive Board opted to offer this event free of charge to all NENASF members, and at a modest fee to the rest of the metal finishing community, in hopes that it would not only educate but to bond together those associated with the metal finishing community.
In addition to offering vital technical information to the metal finishing community the event also made available two-hour Continuing Education Wastewater Treatment Contact Hours to be used towards Wastewater license renewal. It was conducted by means of Zoom format and attracted about thirty attendees. It consisted of three segments featuring five presenters over the two-hour duration from 10:00am to 12:00 pm offering a user-friendly format for all attendees.
Connor McAnespie of Hanna Instruments opened the Webinar with a presentation on the various devices available to the metal finishing/ wastewater treatment professionals to help achieve accurate results and strict compliance standards. He focused a good amount of his presentation on Automatic Titration equipment as a means for accurate reproducible results. This was followed by a presentation by Ryan Scheck of Bowman Analytical on the variety of XRF options available to the metal finishing community, and how the correct choice can not only lessen rejects but also how this equipment can be used to optimize solution maintenance and measure impurities in wastewater discharge.
The webinar was concluded with presentations by a trio from MCTA (Mass Chemistry and Technology Alliance) and OTA (Office of Technical Assistance),
an assistance branch of the Mass DEP. Katherine Robertson of MCTA opened this segment with an overview of the current regulatory status of PFAS chemicals both locally and nationally. This was followed by a presentation by Keri Sasportas from OTA explaining the emerging Environmental Justice Regulation and how it will impact the metal finishing community. The session was concluded with a presentation by John Raschko of OTA who explained the options for assistance available through that agency for the metal finishing community.
Special thanks to Chris Capalbo for moderating, and to Dev Massimi and Ralph Capalbo as Program Speaker Facilitators for their contributions, and to the combined efforts of NASF Board Members, Committee Members, Chapter Membership and dedicated and talented members of the Metal Finishing Community as a whole for making events such as this available for the benefit of our membership.
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